On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:57:22PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> This patch
>
> a) restores compatibility with readline 1.0 (at least headers);
>
> b) detects when history.h is missing (and corrects for it, sigh...);
>
> c) detects a (typical?) case mismatch between readline headers and
> library (when headers are old, but the library is newer - somebody
> installed "user-visible" update, but not developer-visible?); we do
> not do anything drastic in this case; only enable rl_save_prompt
> if the library version is 4.1 or more (do not know the exact
> transition time, should be after 2.1)
>
> d) Report both version of readline at compile time and now (if possible);
Is this patch included in 2.2.5? I was compiling gp at 4 different
offices (Ohio, Berkeley, MPI-Bonn and IHES), and mis-installed
readline was a problem everywhere. Now I see that at least the code
to print the actual version of Readline is not there...
Thanks,
Ilya